DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Wednesday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2022. There are 213 days left in the year. On this date in:
1533: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned as Queen Consort of England.
1792: Kentucky became the 15th state.
1796: Tennessee became the 16th state.
1812: President James Madison, in a message to Congress, recounted what he called Britain’s “series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation”; Congress ended up declaring war.
1813: The mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, “Don’t give up the ship” during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.
1916: Louis Brandeis took his seat as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Jewish American to serve on the nation’s highest bench.
1943: A civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.
1957: Don Bowden, a student at the University of California at Berkeley, became the first American to break the four-minute mile during a meet in Stockton, California, in a time of 3:58.7.
1958: Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic.
1967: The Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released.
1980: Cable News Network made its debut.
2009: General Motors filed for Chapter
11, becoming the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.
2017: President Donald Trump declared he was pulling the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement. (President Joe Biden signed an order returning the U.S. to that accord on his first day in office.)
2020: Police violently broke up a peaceful and legal protest by thousands of people in Lafayette Park across from the White House, using chemical agents, clubs and punches to send protesters fleeing; the protesters had gathered following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a week earlier. A Minneapolis medical examiner classified George Floyd’s death as a homicide, saying his heart stopped as police restrained him and compressed his neck.
Singer Pat Boone is 88. Actor Morgan Freeman is 85. Actor Brian Cox (“Succession”) is 76. Guitarist Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones is 75. Actor Jonathan Pryce is 75. Actor John M. Jackson (“NCIS: Los Angeles”) is 72. Country singer Ronnie Dunn of Brooks and Dunn is 69. Actor Lisa Hartman Black is 66. Actor Tom Irwin (“Devious Maids”) is 66. Bassist Simon Gallup of The Cure is 62. Comedian Mark Curry (“Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”) is 61. Actor Teri Polo (“Meet The Parents”) is 53. Model Heidi Klum is 49. Singer Alanis Morissette is 48. Actor Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”) is 45. Comedian Link Neal of Rhett and Link (Youtube’s “Good Mythical Morning”) is 44.